Is it better to be a dork or a nerd?

[Munchkin03]

In this thread we talk about which better.

[valkyrie]

Neither. They're both unacceptable.

Hmph.

[Lil' Hannah]

I'm partial to nerds.

1. Tasty candy named after you

2. Revenge of the Nerds. I'm vengeful.

[sugar and spice]

I say dork.

For some reason, I've always felt that dorks are the ones that are socially unacceptable because they choose to be, and nerds are the ones that are socially unacceptable because they suck.

[GeekyPenguin]

I think it is better to be a nerd. I was a nerd for a long time. Then I grew busoms.

[Peaches-n-Cream]

I thought that nerds were smart and socially awkward. Dorks are just socially awkward. Dorks are low IQ nerds. Nerds are better since they can outgrow their social inept tendencies when they become successful adults since most successful adults were once nerds.

I prefer douffus.

[Kevin]

nerd also nurd (nûrd)
n. Slang
A foolish, inept, or unattractive person.
A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.

Word History: The word nerd, undefined but illustrated, first appeared in 1950 in Dr. Seuss's If I Ran the Zoo: “And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo And Bring Back an It-Kutch a Preep and a Proo A Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!” (The nerd is a small humanoid creature looking comically angry, like a thin, cross Chester A. Arthur.) Nerd next appears, with a gloss, in the February 10, 1957, issue of the Glasgow, Scotland, Sunday Mail in a regular column entitled “ABC for SQUARES”: “Nerda square, any explanation needed?” Many of the terms defined in this “ABC” are unmistakable Americanisms, such as hep, ick, and jazzy, as is the gloss “square,” the current meaning of nerd. The third appearance of nerd in print is back in the United States in 1970 in Current Slang: “Nurd [sic], someone with objectionable habits or traits.... An uninteresting person, a ‘dud.’” Authorities disagree on whether the two nerdsDr. Seuss's small creature and the teenage slang term in the Glasgow Sunday Mailare the same word. Some experts claim there is no semantic connection and the identity of the words is fortuitous. Others maintain that Dr. Seuss is the true originator of nerd and that the word nerd (“comically unpleasant creature”) was picked up by the five- and six-year-olds of 1950 and passed on to their older siblings, who by 1957, as teenagers, had restricted and specified the meaning to the most comically obnoxious creature of their own class, a “square.”

dork (dôrk)
n.
Slang. A stupid, inept, or foolish person: “the stupid antics of America's favorite teen-age cartoon dorks” (Joshua Mooney).
Vulgar Slang. The penis.

dork

n : a dull stupid fatuous person [syn: jerk]

[Dionysus]

Both, ugh! Smart guys are fine, but the social skills have to be waaaaaay up there.

When it comes to guys they are on the bottom of the totem pole with the thugs (there are exceptions). Somehow I tend to attract them both, eventhough I'm not either.

[KillarneyRose]

Don't ask me, I'm still trying to digest ktsnake's revelation that the term "nerd" was not coined by The Fonz

[thermobryan]

Originally posted by sugar and spice
I say dork.

For some reason, I've always felt that dorks are the ones that are socially unacceptable because they choose to be, and nerds are the ones that are socially unacceptable because they suck.

I thought it was the other way around...

[sugar and spice]

I've gotta agree with ariesrising.

It may just be because I read Microserfs when I was 14 and it has influenced my ideas on this subject, though.

[lifesaver]

I'm a big ole dork. And damn proud of it. In fact, I revel in my dorkyness.

[KSigkid]

nerds are smart though by definition...i'd say it's better to be a nerd

[mmcat]

a nerd i suppose due to the intelligence factor...

[pixell]

Originally posted by ariesrising
What about a geek?

Douglas Coupland's character Dan in Microserfs discussed the difference between a geek and a nerd: "It's subtle. Instinctual. I think geek implies hireability, whereas nerd doesn't necessarily mean your skills are 100 percent sellable. Geek implies wealth."

It also implies sideshow freak who does weird things lol.

You've read that book? Yay! I thought it was one of the more interesting ones I've read lately. Maybe that's because I'm a geek/nerd too.